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Some people prefer to work for themselves or own a busines. Others prefer to work for an employer. Would you rather be self-employed, work for someone else, or own a business? Use specific reasons to explain your choice.
22/F/Japan>>> TOEFL CBT 223 (5.0)
Now Japan, my country, is in recession and many companies including some large companies such as Mycal go bankruptcy. Therefore many of us want to work as an employee, because owners have big risk to go the same way as Mycal went last month. I also would like to work as an employee. But the reason is not to avoid the big risk of financial failure of owners, but to learn know-how of work from the company.

Firstly, I am immature as a worker and need to learn how to work through working at a certain company. If I have enough ability to run a company, I would like to work for myself. But before independence, I need to acquire adequate skills to work as a worker. Before working as an full-time worker, the company deciding to employ me will make me receive education for workers in the company. I will learn how to negotiate with other companies or something there. Through job experience in the company, I will make business relation with other workers and companies. Without receiving business education and working at a present company, I would not be able to acquire adequate skills and learn know-how like these things. That is why I want to work as an employee.

Although I want to be an employee in order to acquire enough techniques and skills at a company, I do not continue to work there. After acquiring adequate abilities to work as an worker, I would like to be an independent worker, because working independently makes my job more interesting. I can chose my favorite jobs and work freely.

I aim at being a translator and have a dream to translate literature. If I work at a company, I have to translate what my boss order to translate. Translation of literature works usually are offered to some independent translators. Therefore, when I acquire enough ability to do good job for myself, I want to be independent worker.